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Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Ajamu Baraka Report Back from the US Peace Council’s Peace Delegation to the People's Republic of China
20 Dec 2023
Ajamu Baraka reports back from the four-person delegation from the US Peace Council, where he serves on the Executive Committee, to Beijing and Shanghai China hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament between November 21 and November 26th, 2023.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Southern Human Rights Organizing and the Amazon Workers' Struggle
20 Dec 2023
Margaret Kimberley spoke with Jennifer Bates, an organizer with the BAmazon Union, at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC) which was recently held in Nashville, a gathering of grassroots organizers and human rights defenders from across the U.S. and Global South. They…
Danny Shaw
Murder Thy Neighbor A Recap of Mass Shootings in 2023: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective
20 Dec 2023
Mass shootings have become ubiquitous in the US, as part of a gun-obsessed culture that manufactures and exports violence around the world. This pandemic of violence is a creation that serves ruling class objectives.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REVIEW: Radical Black Reading, 2023
20 Dec 2023
An end of the year radical Black reading list from the editors of The Black Agenda Review.
The Editors
Black Agenda Report Will Return on January 10, 2024
22 Dec 2023
Thanks for your support of Black Agenda Report in 2023. We are taking our annual break and we'll be back on January 10, 2024. Power to the people!
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The United Nations Pushes Haiti Under the Bus
10 Oct 2023
For the tenth time in the last 30 years, the United Nations vote to authorize an occupation of Haiti.
The Editors
Black Agenda Report Returns with a New Site
10 Oct 2023
The Black Agenda Report editorial team is grateful to our readers for their support and patience. Last week we were unable to publish BAR due to circumstances beyond our control.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
3rd Reich corporate confederate circus
10 Oct 2023
By Raymond Nat Turner, Poet-in-Residence 3rd Reich corporate confederate circus 1% pickpockets; pin-headed Hitler-lovers work the crowd… Corporate circus up to old tricks! Red nose, big shoe, swastika shit show- cruel… Capitalist Hill clowns and clownettes — Millionaire jesters— juggling…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Laphonza Butler’s Liberal Dem Credentials All But Glow in the Dark
10 Oct 2023
No one better exemplifies the Democratic Party’s overarching identity politics than California Governor Gavin Newsom. He engineered the appointment of San Francisco’s first Chinese mayor, appointed California’s first Black Secretary of State, California’s first Latino Senator, and now its …
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: West Africa in Evolution, Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1961
10 Oct 2023
The current political turbulence in France’s former colonies in Africa can perhaps be understood as the continuation of an unfinished project of decolonization. In France’s colonial territories -- Sudan, Chad, Mali, Senegal – the post-World II project of independence was compromised by both the…